UK inbound tourism plummeted from 40.9 million to 11.1 million (down 73%). But only 7.4 million visitors are predicted in 2021 (down 82% on 2019). This shows UK tourism hasn't bounced back like it has in nearby countries"
Meanwhile ... "France saw a 34.9% growth of tourists in 2021 from 2020; while flights to Spain and Turkey have recovered 64% and 74% of their 2019 figures. Greece was almost back to pre-pandemic levels over the summer, with 86% of the arrivals of July and August 2019."
The United Kingdom has seriously damaged its tourism industry… by inserting barriers to foreign tourists and business people…. Before Brexit Europeans from the mainland were able to use their identity card but now they are not valid and a passport is required to gain entry to Britain…
Europeans from EU member states have a choice… they either apply for a passport which takes time and money or they just don't visit the UK… the latter has proven to be the most desirable option and choose to holiday elsewhere…since brexit and the pandemic many business people have found it to be unnecessary to travel since discovering the practicality of online group meetings such as zoom..
Another unfortunate and quite frankly embarrassing factor is how many EU citizens consider Brexit as a personal attack and are boycotting the UK. Brexiters tell us that they are not xenophobic while behaving as such...go figure
t's a country that has just endured national fuel shortages, isolated food shortages, and its government voted this fall to dump untreated sewage onto its famous coastlines. Oh -- and it has the second highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world.
So who would want to go on vacation in the UK at the moment?
Not many, the figures show.
For 2021, national tourist board Visit Britain has forecast that visitor numbers will be lower even than in 2020, when travel restrictions were at their highest.
Visitor numbers to the UK plummeted from 40.9 million in 2019 to 11.1 million in 2020 -- a dip of 73%.
But 2021 seems to have gone even worse for the UK's inbound tourism sector, with just 7.4 million visitors predicted to visit before the year is out -- down 82% on 2019.
And although all destinations, of course, have been devastated by the pandemic, the UK's figures show that travellers aren't bouncing back as they are in nearby countries, which have seen visitor numbers swell as they loosened restrictions.
Neighbor France, for instance, saw a 34.9% growth of tourists in 2021 from 2020, bringing in an extra $43 billion to the economy; while flights to summer hotspots Spain and Turkey have recovered to 64% and 74% of their 2019 figures, even for flights this winter.
Greece was almost back to pre-pandemic levels over the summer, with 86% of the arrivals of July and August 2019, according to aviation data analysts Forward Keys. The UK, in turn, managed just 14.3% of 2019 levels, according to its data.
Industry insiders describe the UK's situation as a perfect storm: rocketing Covid rates while European neighbours were stabilizing; inconsistent travel rules; and the effects of Brexit, which are finally being felt, both within the UK and by those wishing to travel there.
Add in relatively low government spending on a tourism recovery plan, as other countries go all out to court visitors, and you're left with plummeting numbers.
"The problems facing the UK are multiple, and not just to do with Covid," says Tom Jenkins, CEO of the ETOA -- the trade association for inbound tourism to Europe.
Kurt Janson, director of the UK's Tourism Alliance, knows who he thinks is to blame. "Some of the problems are government-inflicted as well as Covid-inflicted," he says.
So what exactly is going on in Blighty?
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